IQ tests measure a raw score of correct answers to logic and language puzzles and then use statistics, the most damnable form of lying, to convert that to a percentile or numerical score which they call an Intelligence Quotient.
The tests are standardized so that only those candidates with a raw score in the lowest 20% of human ability are included in the IQ range – the rest are discarded as statistical outliers. This is done deliberately so as not to bring attention to the extreme disparity in raw scores between the included and excluded, and while there is only a relatively small number of these so called outliers they do show how much our intelligence has been damaged by our permanent entrapment in survivor mode. An outlier can complete an IQ test in 20% of the time allocated if they work out the answers, or 5% of the time if they copy the answers from the great library as we are designed to.
So if you have an IQ of 160, you are both a gifted genius and a fifth wit. Many theories are emerging that we were once much more intelligent than we are now, and that we are born more intelligent but are dumbed down in our formative years and by our initial education. Both are correct.
Encyclopaedia Britannica defines human intelligence as a mental quality that consists of the abilities to learn from experience, adapt to new situations, understand and handle abstract concepts, and use knowledge to manipulate one’s environment. It would seem we have a few problems. Humans have a long record of failing to learn from experience, we adapt to new situations by trying to turn them into old situations we feel comfortable with, fail to understand most concepts and use what knowledge we have to destroy our environment. No wonder many think AI can be our savior.
In the same way VW has “Blue Motion” and Mazda has “Sky Active”, AI or Artificial Intelligence is just a marketing slogan for a class of software developed from what was once called expert software. The old stuff mostly failed so it had to go away and be rebranded.
The much celebrated ChatGPT is, in reality, just a fancy photocopier with the ability to sort and reformat the data it copies. It has no actual intelligence so can’t validate the accuracy of any of the information it is fed with and so like all computers it suffers from the GIGO principle – garbage in – garbage out. But it does the typing, so it is a godsend for cheats and lazy writers.
The computer designed for deep thought on the other hand runs on pure human intelligence, updates it’s data in real time, delivers its information in a format that matches the users abilities and is capable of researching an idea in the same way a single human can. Sadly, the user has to do their own typing, so ChatGPT will always have lots of users.